coast
沿海地区,海岸,岸边,沿海
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Definitions
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- : the land next to the sea; seashore: the rocky coast of Maine.
- : the region adjoining it: They live on the coast, a few miles from the sea.
- : a hill or slope down which one may slide on a sled.
- : a slide or ride down a hill or slope, as on a sled.
- : Obsolete. the boundary or border of a country.
- : the Coast, Informal. the region bordering on the Pacific Ocean; the West Coast: I'm flying out to the Coast next week.
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- : to slide on a sled down a snowy or icy hillside or incline.
- : to descend a hill or the like, as on a bicycle, without using pedals.
- : to continue to move or advance after effort has ceased; keep going on acquired momentum: We cut off the car engine and coasted for a while.
- : to advance or proceed with little or no effort, especially owing to one's actual or former assets, as wealth, position, or name, or those of another: The actor coasted to stardom on his father's name.
- : to sail along, or call at the various ports of, a coast.
- : Obsolete. to proceed in a roundabout way.
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- : to cause to move along under acquired momentum: to coast a rocket around the sun.
- : to proceed along or near the coast of.
- : Obsolete. to keep alongside of.
- : Obsolete. to go by the side or border of.
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Examples
Endangered humpback dolphins have been spotted in Abu Dhabi and other varieties off the coast of Lagos.
Michael had sold the place and moved to the coast a few years earlier.
Ice near the heart of the continent today creeps coastward at less than 10 meters per year, while ice close to the coast picks up the pace, traveling up to a few kilometers per year.
Most of the funding goes to the coasts, as opposed to the center of the country.
Back east, where he grew up, the highways weren't this bad, but that's what you pay to live on the best coast, as his grom friends always say.
Groups like the Crips and MS-13 have spread from coast to coast, and even abroad.
This approach would greatly limit his appeal beyond the Northeast and the west coast.
There are still large tracts of the island, particularly on the north coast, that are undeveloped.
So too does Inherent Vice, which is something like a love letter written in pot smoke to the Gold Coast.
White King Soap sponsored the show on the West Coast, and Beech-Nut Gum in the East.
Two Battalions racing due North along the coast and foothills with levelled bayonets.
Every day they are gaining more strength, as is seen by the presence of so many of them on this coast.
New France has an exceedingly varied sea-coast, indented by bays and rivers, broken and irregular.
A traveler coming, wet and cold, into a country ale-house on the coast of Kent, found the fire completely blockaded.
Their territory extended 400 miles on the Atlantic coast, and "from the Atlantic westward to the South sea."